Typically, there seems to have been minimal mention of this story in the US media. The comet, which goes by the official name C/2002 V1, is new to astronomers. Calculations show it has passed through the inner Solar System once before but this was 37,000 years ago. The comet is unusual in that it is very large and very bright. In fact, it is the brightest comet ever observed by one of Soho's instruments.
(Full text here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2779633.stm))If you visit today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030224.html), you'll see that "The now-outbound comet remains bright but will surely fade as it moves away from the Sun. Nevertheless, Comet NEAT will likely be visible with binoculars to southern hemisphere observers for the next month." Maybe some of our down under SciForums members can let us know if they've spotted it.

Current SOHO images (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-c3.html).

:m: Peace.